WhatsApp Banned 2.38 Mn Indian Accounts In July

WhatsApp banned 2.38 million accounts in India. Among these 1.4 million accounts were proactively banned, before any reports from users.

According to WhatsApp’s monthly report, WhatsApp has released the number of accounts it has banned in the month of July. Between 1 July, 2022 and 31 July, 2022, 2,387,000 WhatsApp accounts were banned. 1,416,000 of these accounts were proactively banned, before any reports from users.

Previously, WhatsApp reported that it had banned over 2.2 million accounts with bad records in June.

WhatsApp additionally received 574 complaint reports in the month of July in India.

The data shared highlights the number of Indian accounts banned by WhatsApp using the abuse detection approach, which also includes action taken in furtherance to negative feedback received from users via our “Report” feature.

These reports by WhatsApp are published in accordance with Rule 4(1)(d) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (IT Rules, 2021).